MS Access Viewer/Reader for Windows

[Ewa Magdalena Wdzieczak-Smering]

Does anyone know of an application that would allow me to
view the mdb files? Or maybe there is something offered by
a third party that would do the trick? I am not interested
in the app offered by MS... according to its website, "The
Snapshot Viewer enables you to view a report snapshot
without having the standard or run-time versions of
Microsoft Access 97 through Access 2003." and I need a bit
more than that...

 

[Marc]

Nope, never heard of such a viewer. If you cannot get into the database with
design permissions, you can only use what the application is built to allow.

Marc

 

[John Nurick]

Hi Ewa Magdalena,

There's no application as such, but Microsoft Query (supplied with most
if not all versions of Office) will let you - within limits - view the
data in .mdb files, and both Word and Excel can pull data into
documents. Visual Basic and VBScript can use the DAO or ADO object
libraries. Many other applications and languages can use these libraries
or the Jet ODBC drivers.

But if you want to see the forms and reports, you have to have Access.